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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Blofield Hundred Strumpshaw STRUMPSHAW. At the survey Godric, as steward for the Conqueror, had the care of a lordship, of which 2 freemen were deprived, who held it … of Suffolk and Surry. Alice, after the death of Sir John, about the 16th of the said King, remarried Roger de Clare; on …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Thorp, by Norwich THORP, BY NORWICH, Called Torp in the survey. Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury was lord of it in the reign of the Confessor, … Thomas de Middleton was vicar, and presented (as said) about 1200 by the prior paying 8 s. per annum to St. Paul's …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Witton WITTON, Part of this town is accounted for under the hundred of Walsham, and part under that of Blofield; that … it remained till mortgaged by Sir Miles Hobart, Knt. about 1653, as in Plumstede Parva. In 1700, William Hewar, … deceased, late Countess of Pembroke, and for her own state whilst living, and her soul when deceased: but, in the …
Old and New London
… transported, I securely stray Where winding alleys lead the doubtful way: The silent court and opening square … as a branch of the royal stables." Of this neighbourhood, about the year 1685, Macaulay writes thus in his "History of … disorderly sports, especially on Sundays. Such was their state in 1800. Tradition had given to the superstitions at …
Old and New London
… works I see! Lo! stately streets. Lo! squares that court the breeze." Thomson. Southampton (afterwards Bedford) … Baxter, the Nonconformist DivineAn Anecdote about Dr. RadcliffeFashionable ResidentsPoor Sir Richard … "Vivian Grey." Mr. Disraeli, in the course of one of his speeches at Taunton, made an uncomplimentary reference to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bloxham hundred THE HUNDRED OF BLOXHAM In 1841, before the addition of Shenington, … 'dormitories' for Banbury and other nearby towns. Since about 1860 large open ironstone workings have become a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 5 BLOXWORTH (8894) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 89 SE, bSY 89 NE) The long narrow parish of Bloxworth covering 2,826 acres lies … from the valley of the Winterborne across a low ridge at about 200 ft. above O.D. to a lower, generally wooded, area … 1695, Chief Justice of Chester, principal Secretary of State, white marble cartouche carved with cherub's head, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) BLOXWORTH ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Wareham and Purbeck, hundred of CoombsDitch, … from Blandford; containing 306 inhabitants. It comprises about 3000 acres, of which 900 are arable, 400 pasture, 200 … in a field, a few inches below the surface, in a perfect state. There are mineral springs. Blymhill (St. Mary) …
Alumni Oxonienses
… student of Middle Temple 1628, royalist colonel, killed at the siege of Lyme Regis April, 1644, buried at Holcombe Rogus … of Cambridge, physician and astrologer, died in Russia about 1574. See D.N.B. Bonamy, John s. Peter, of Guernsey, … 12 July, 1608, proctor 1624, one of the keepers of the state paper office, 'resident or leiger ambassador to the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Blue - Blues Blue [blewe; blew] Like most terms of colour, 'blue' has a multiplicity of meanings, many of them inter-connected. It is the colour of the sky and the sea, one of the colours of the … or Somerset. [Acts (1593)] continued previous regulations about the size and weight of these well-established cloths, …